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I was addicted to Xanax for about 11 years.I went through the worse already since I had to go to jail & they cut me cold turkey there and almost died!!! I have been going through severe withdrawals but now i can live a life almost normal. I believe that everyone should know this medication is highly addictive. I had a seizure while I was in County but they did nothing for me there. Now I have problems with high blood pressure & we don’t know if that had anything to do with it!! I wanna know why sometimes I still feel like my body craves it? also nobody really understands how miserable I feel at times & I also suffer from short term memory loss! I am currently taking no medicine & I am very proud of myself!!
I am 17 years old and have been taking Xanax in addition with Ambien for hyperinsomnia. Most nights I still can’t sleep, so I take more Xanax to try to relax enough to sleep, but I always worry that I will accidentally take too much. I have taken up to 2mg in one night on top of 25mg of Ambien CR, and still haven’t been able to fall asleep. I have wanted to take more xanax to sleep but I don’t know when too much is too much. I have tried almost every sleeping drug combination that someone my age can try so I am at a loss for determining when I need to lie awake or take another Xanax. If anyone could give me dosage information for a person who is about 5’7 and 182lbs with a strong resistance to this medication that would help me out a lot. I don’t want to accidentally hurt myself in an attemp to fall asleep.
I have been taking xanax on and off for about 10 years. I’m 30 now. I have some extensive drug abuse problems with all kinds of drugs and have really gotten into pain killers the past five years but anyways…over the years I have always loved taking xanax. Nothing kills anxiety like xanax. I absolutely can’t take them as prescribed though. Every time I get my refills…I abuse them….end up handing some away…etc. 9 out of 10 times I go do all the things that I want to do but can’t because of anxiety but the problem is…I’m the only one enjoying myself. Everyone gets very irritated with me on xanax except for the very occasional time that I take a low dosage. I occasionally mix them with alcohol which is a guaranteed blackout and I have ended up in fights. I try my best not to do that anymore. I have been saying for years I’m going to take them as prescribed and never can. I have been relentlessly trying to fix my drug abuse and I have actually moved to a new town to get away from everyone I know and I have a refill of 90 xanax bars coming up this Friday. I’m really hoping that I can be responsible with them. Being that I always have abused them…I am never on a constant supply every day. It’s more along the lines of being zannied out for a few days and running out and then 4 or 5 times during the month finding them somewhere else and taking them for a day or 2. So I never really experience the withdrawll that people talk about. I feel like I really need xanax most of the time I don’t have it and I’m craving it terribly today. Though I have mentioned alot of the negative things xanax seems to do to me…no other drug seems to relieve tension the way this one does. When I take them for job interviews as I have many times…I take a somewhat low dose of maybe 3 to 6 mg’s and I have no nervousness whatsoever and 9 out of 10 times I get the job because I’m “joe cool” and the person interviewing me usually likes me. The problem is….sooner or later I will take a strong enough dose that it’s obvious I’m on something and I lose the job. I have also wrecked a few cars after taking them and drinking and luckily was always alright. At 30, I’m tired of the same repeated mistakes and I’ll be trying my best to just take them when I really need them. Tolerance goes up tremendously in a short amount of time and I can’t see that taking them on a daily basis would be a good thing. I could take 2 xanax bars right now and feel decent and more relaxed but if my tolerance is up, I can take 5 xanax bars and not feel like I took any! I hate that about xanax! Anyways that’s my story. God bless. Anthony